Re: Fazzur Wallenstein

From: Chris Lemens <chrislemens_at_...>
Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2009 07:14:46 -0700 (PDT)

Donald replies to Jeorg:

> > Mounted weaponthanes, not full-time lancers, but medium-armed sword
> > troops, enough to charge the flanks or rear of infantry, and of
> > course to take enemy cavalry head on, but also ready to dismount and
> > form up a shield wall. A counterpart to the Lunar dragoons, really.
>
> They're going to meet Lunar cavalry on full size horses while riding
> mountain ponies?

But how "full-size" are those Lunar horses? The vast majority of them will be descended from Pentan horses, which are more pony-like than the horses that we're all familiar with (which were generally descended from draft animals, bred for strength, not for survival in the Pentan steppe). I see a smallish contingent of heavy cavalry from the northwest, where people historically immigrated from Fronela. But I see the horses in the central valley as smaller than that. Heavier than a pony, but not by a huge margin.

Chris

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